BUSINESS Biomet shares rise on rumor of company...

April 05, 2006

BUSINESSBiomet shares rise on rumor of company sale Biomet shares jumped Tuesday afternoon after national news agencies reported rumors of the Warsaw company's possible sale. The rumors come one week after the sudden retirement of its founding president and chief executive officer. C8Coachmen completes sale of Miller Building Coachmen Industries has completed selling the last of two divisions it said it would get rid of in October. Miller Building Systems, of Elkhart, went to an investment group for more than $9 million. C8LOCALSilver Hawks visit school in Plymouth If the first-graders at Washington Elementary want to know who those tall strangers were that they got autographs from Tuesday afternoon, they may have to wait until next year when they learn how to read cursive. The South Bend Silver Hawks visited Plymouth's elementary schools Tuesday before their game against Tri State University at Bill Nixon Field. When the players arrived, students peered out from their classrooms to get a look at the tall players and anxiously waited until it was their classroom's turn to talk to them. B1Police ask for more help in baby-death case There was evidence of blood where a newborn girl was found nearly a month ago in a northern LaPorte County wooded area. But so far, authorities said they don't know for certain where the birth occurred. "Indications at the scene tell us there was probably a lot of bleeding at the scene and other things," said LaPorte County Police Chief of Detectives Kevin Ulam. Ulam's remarks were made Tuesday afternoon during a news conference to get the public's help in identifying and locating at least the mother prior to today's scheduled burial. B3